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Continue reading →: The Christians and the Pagans: A Song by Dar WilliamsAmber called her uncle, said “We’re up here for the holiday,Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay.”And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree,He watched his son hang candy canes all made with Red Dye No. 3.He told his niece,…
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Continue reading →: A Relational Critique of Plantinga’s Reformed EpistemologyI have deep respect for Alvin Plantinga and his work in Reformed epistemology. His insistence that belief in God can be properly basic, rational even without inferential proof, pushes back against the rigid empiricism and rationalism that too often dominate Western thought. In this, he reminds us that our minds,…
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Continue reading →: Ecclesiology and Language: How Scripture Speaks About the ChurchWhen I sit with scripture and pay attention to the words it uses for God’s people, I’m struck by how much those words reveal. Ecclesiology—the way we think about the church—isn’t just built on abstract ideas. It’s shaped by lived language. Words like church, disciples, brothers and sisters, saints, believers…
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Continue reading →: Polygamy may be in the Bible, but it’s not permitted for pastorsEvery so often, I come across an article that grieves me. Not because it’s hostile to Christianity, but because it tries to sanctify what Christ came to redeem us from. Recently I read one such piece from a pastor named Rich Tidwell defending “biblical” polygamy. He argued that because the…
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Continue reading →: Fixing My EyesFixing My Eyes Sometimes the worldfeels too heavy,a storm of crueltyand endless folly. I feel my heartshrinking,my spirit dimmingunder the weight. And then I remember:to lift my eyesto Jesus,the light in the darkness. Not a light that erases night,but one that shines through it,softly, steadily,showing the way,illuminating small actsthat matter.…
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Continue reading →: The Redundancy of Public Theology in a Missional FrameworkSometimes I wonder whether public theology is even a necessary category anymore. If we take seriously that the world, including the Western world, is a mission field, then all theology should already be public. Every act of faith is lived in relation to a watching world. Every church, every believer,…
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Continue reading →: Lament for the ChurchI have been reflecting on the flow of divine action—how God works through Christ, in the Spirit, through the church, for the sake of the world. Yet when I consider the place of the church in this divine economy, I am disheartened. In the West especially, our witness falters. Scandal,…
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Continue reading →: Love Me Or Else! Is This The Message Of Jesus?I came across a journal entry from two years ago that caught my attention. I’d written about a man who saw Jesus as someone who condemns anyone who doesn’t love him, rather than someone who loves everyone and would reach out to anyone willing to take his hand. Reading it…
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Continue reading →: The Early Church and the Sword: Before the Edict of MilanIt’s tempting to imagine the early church as unanimously pacifist, as a pure, unbroken line of peace teaching from the Sermon on the Mount to the Edict of Milan. The truth, as always, is more nuanced. Yet what emerges from the writings of the ante-Nicene fathers is a striking moral…
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Continue reading →: Everything and Nothing: God Beyond CategoriesEverything exists in relation to other things.Yet God is no “thing” among them —the uncreated Creator,the wellspring of existence,beyond all categorisation.
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